20 PBC Baseball Players Named All-Region

May 18, 2010

20 Peach Belt Conference baseball players have been named
All-Region as both the Daktronics and Rawlings/ABCA teams were
announced over the weekend. Four of those players were named
First Team by both organizations with GCSU’s Martin Dewald
earning the Daktronics Pitcher of the Year award and North
Georgia’s Chris Rearick getting the same honor from
Rawlings/ABCA.

Columbus State’s Jason Rogers, Francis Marion’s
Barrett Kleinknecht, GCSU’s Sean Harrell and Dewald were
chosen first-team on both squads. For the Rawlings/ABCA team,
seven PBC players were named first team while five were placed on
the Daktronics first team.

A senior from Mannheim, Germany, Dewald was named the Most
Valuable Player at the recent NCAA South Atlantic Regional after
pitching a complete-game shutout in the championship game to send
the Bobcats to next week’s Division II World Series.
11-2 with a 3.56 ERA on the season, Dewald has pitched 103.2
innings with 108 strikeouts while holding batters to a .232
average. He was also named first-team All-Conference in the
Peach Belt.

Chris Rearick was named the 2010 PBC Pitcher of the Year for
North Georgia. A senior from Pooler, Ga., he was 9-2 with a
3.20 ERA. In 98.1 innings pitched, he struck out 99 and held
batters to a .237 batting average. Rearick started 14 games
with one complete game.

Each player named to the first team is now eligible for
All-America honors from that respective organization. The
Rawlings/ABCA team is coordinated and voted on by the American
Baseball Coaches Association. The Daktronics team is
coordinated and voted on by region sports information directors.